Pipe smoker&#39;s accessory



Jan. 2o, 1953 R s, HARPER 2,625,939

PIPE SMOKERS ACCESSORY Filed June 24, 1946 4 Sheets-She@ l Jan. 20, 1953 P. s. HARPER PIPE SMOKERS ACCESSORY 4 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed June 24, 1946 Jan. 20, 1953 P. S. HARPER PIPEv SMOKERv-S ACCESSORY 4 Sheets-Sheet 5 v Filed June 24, 1946 Jan# 20, 1953 P. S. HARPER PIPE SMOKERSv ACCESSORY 4 Sheets-Sheet 4 Filed June 24, 1946 Patented Jan. 20, 1953 PIPE SMOKERS ACCESSORY Philip s. Harper, chicago, In., assignor to 'Harper- Wyman Company, Chicago, Ill., a corporation of .Illinois Application June 24, 1946, serial No. 678,952

(o1. isi- 232) 7 Claims.

The present invention relates to a pipe smokers accessory and has for its primary object the provision of a new and improved accessory including a compartment for holding pipe cleaners.

A further object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved pipe smokers vaccessory having a pipe cleaner compartment for cleanly and neatly holding pipe cleaners ready for use. n

Another object of the present invention is` to provide a new and improved pipe smokers accessory having a central depressed ash-receiving portion and a pipe cleaner compartment at the outer peripheral portion. V

A further object of the present invention is to provide a new and improved pipe smokers accessory having a pipe cleaner compartment curved so as to bend the pipe cleaners, whereby said cleaners are frictionally held so that they will not beA accidentally displaced or fall from the accessory.

Another object of the present invention is the provision of a new and improved pipe smokers accessory including a pipe cleaner compartment so constructed and arranged that pipe cleaners may be readily inserted therein and may be equally readily removed therefrom, as by applying pressure at one end to press the cleaners out through the other end so that one can be readily grasped and pulled out for use. v

A further object of the present invention is the provision of new and improved pipe smokers accessories including pipe cleaner compartments which can be readily constructed and including as a bottom wall either the base plate of the accessory or a separate wall dening plate enabling a. thinner base plate to be used.

Other objects and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the ensuing description of preferred embodiments of the invention, in the course of which reference is ha to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a top plan View, partly broken away, of one embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary side elevational View, the sectional part being taken along the line 2-2 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is Va fragmentary sectional view taken along the line 3--3 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary sectional view taken along the line 4-,4 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary side elevational view, the view being along the line 5 5 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 6 is a top plan View, partly broken away, of another embodiment of the invention:

Fig. 7 is a cross sectional view taken along the line 1--1 of Fig. 6;

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary side elevational View taken along the line 8 8 of Fig. 6; v

Fig. 9 is a view similar to Figs. 1 and 6 of a further embodiment of the invention; andA Figs. 10 and 11 are fragmentary vertical cross sectional views taken along the lines Ill-IU and II-I I ofFig. 9.

Referring now to the drawings and rst to Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive, it may be noted that the smokers accessory is indicated as a Whole by reference character IIJ. The accessory is shown as being a pipe smokers ash tray suitable for use upon a table, desk, or the like, or upon a special stand. The tray is provided with a central depressed ash-receiving portion I2 at the center of which is located a pipe knocker I4 made of cork or the like and detachably mounted upon a pipe reamer I6 above the lowest level of the portion I2, as disclosed and claimed in my copending application Serial No. 678,953, led contemporaneously herewith, now abandoned.

The ash tray is constructed in suitable manner as by die casting andl from some suitable material, such as an aluminum alloy. The ash-receiving portion I2 is dened by` a relatively thin bowlshaped wall I8 terminating in an upper relatively flat annular top 20. The accessory includes also a generally verticallyV disposed annular outer peripheral wa11 22. The tray is completed by a base 24 made of suitable material, such as fibre board, suitably secured to the underside of the tray as by a plurality of spaced apart screws 26, see Figs. 1 and 3. In order to prevent marring the table or other support, the bottom of the base may be provided with a felt pad 28.

The accessory may have detachably secured to it one or more, preferably two, picks 30 each of which includes a ball-shaped handle 32 and a sharp pointed pick defining element 34, as de scribed and claimed in my copending application Serial No. 678,954 filed contemporaneously herewith, now abandoned.

In accordance with the present invention the accessory is provided with a compartment for holding pipe cleaners. This compartment is indicated as a whole by reference character 40 and in the embodiment of the invention now being described it is preferably located at the outer peripheral portion of the ash tray and it is preferably open at both ends, the openings being indicated by reference characters 42 and 44.

The compartment, in accordance with another feature of the invention. lis so constructed. and

arranged that the pipe cleaner elements are bent when located in the compartment, whereby they are frictionally held against accidental dislodgement or loss. Accordingly, the curved outer wall 22 is utilized as the outer wall of the compartment and spaced from it is an approximately concentric inner wall 46. This wall, which also includes integral end portions 48 and 50, is formed integrally with the tray. The inner wall extends downwardly into abutting engagement with the base 24, whereby the latter constitutes also the bottom of the compartment.

The top of the compartment is preferably constituted by a relatively thin and lig-ht weight arcuate plate 52 positioned by arcuate shoulders 54 and 56 in the outer wall 22 and the bowl Wall |8, respectively. The plate is secured by a pair of spaced apart screws 58, see Figs. l and 4.

The size of the compartment may be Vvaried as desired, but it is preferred that it be sufficiently large to hold a full pack of twenty four pipe cleaners. The curvature and the construc- -tion of the openings 42 and 44 are such that even a single pipe cleaner will be bent slightly and held. For this reason, the adjacent edges 42A and 44A of the openings located at the ends of one wall (the outer one) are disposed so as to be substantially along a line tangential to the other wall 46, as most clearly evident from Fig. l.

From the foregoing detailed description of lan ash tray constructed in accordance with the invention, it will be noted that there isA provided a compartment for holding pipe cleaners in suehmencer that they are not .likely to be dislodged or displaced and wherein they are frictionallyheld ready for instantaneous use. A pipe vcleaner may be removed from the compartment as by pressing a number of pipe cleaners out through one end and then taking one of them. The remainder can then be returned vin the compartment by the application of pressure thereto from the opposite or projecting end.

In smaller ash trays it is not always desirable to Vhave the compartment at the outer peripheral portion as in the above described lembodiment, and rather, it is preferable to have it extending approximately diametrically across the accessory as illustrated in the embodiment of the invention shown in Figs. 6, '7 and 8, to which reference is now had.

The ash tray 60 of this second embodiment is somewhat smaller than the one previously described. It includes a central depressed ashreceiving `portion `[52 dened by a bowl-shaped wall 64. Instead of having a pair of picks and a pair of cigar-receiving grooves it includes a single pick 30, a single cigar-receiving groove 66 opposite the pick, and a pair of oppositely located cigarette-receiving grooves 6B and 70. The cork knocker 14 is of somewhat diierent construction, it having a supporting and heat resisting metallic liner '|.6 adapted to surround the reamer I6, also as disclosed and claimed in my previously'referred to copending application Serial No. 678,953.

The pipe cleaner compartment 80 is constructed in accordance with the principles of the present invention, i. e., it is slightly curved in order frictionally to hold the pipe cleaners in place. The compartment extends approximately diametrically across the tray and has openings 82 and 84 at its opposite ends. It is defined by a pair of side walls 86 and 88 cast as integral parts of the trav. a top Wall oonstituted by a. portion of the wall 64, and a bottom constituted by a base plate 90 secured to the underside of the tray by a plurality of screws 92. A felt pad 94 may be secured to the underside of the base plate.

As in the nrst-described embodiment of the invention, the sides 82a and 84a of the openings 82 and 84 and at the ends of wall 88 Yare substantially along a line tangential to the other compartment wall 86, thereby insuring that pipe cleaners placed into the compartment are bent slightly and thus frictionally held against accidental and undesired dislodgment. Pipe cleaners may be inserted into and removed from the compartment just as in the first-described embodiment of the invention and it is believed that further description of the construction and advantages of the invention need not be repeated here.

The base plate need not be as thick as the base plates 24 and 90 of the previously described embodiments of the invention as a thinner plate rcan be used and a pipe cleaner compartment of the same height can be obtained by using a separate bottom wall defining plate. A construction of this character is disclosed in Figs. 9, 10

and ,11, to which reference is now had.

The pipe cleaner compartment |00 is illustrated in an ash tray like the one illustrated in Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive, except as modified to vutilize a thin base plate |02, which is preferably a steel Stamping, and a compartment bottom Wall defining plate |94. To facilitate assembly and to improve appearance, the base plate |02 is provided with an annular upturned flange |06 derside of the tray as by four screws IIB received in threaded openings in bosses ||2 extending downwardly from the bottom ||4 of the tray.

The compartment bottom wall delining plate |04 is generally arcuate in shape. It is secured to the underside of the tray below a top plate ||6 (which corresponds to top plate 52) by a pair of spaced apart screws ||8 received in threaded openings in the dependent bosses |20. These bosses are preferably formed integrally with the inner compartment wall |22 which, in turn, is formed integrally with the tray. The inner wall terminates in end portions |24, corresponding to end portions 48 of compartment 40, and which are located adjacent the compartment openings |26 and |28.

From the foregoing description it may be noted that the compartment |00 is of substantially the same size as compartment 40 as determined by the height of the bosses |22 and that the bottom plate |02 is entirely separate from it and is relatively thin. The use and further advantages of the compartment are believed to be evident from the previously described embodiments of the invention and they will not be repeated here.

-While but three embodiments of the invention have been described in detail, it should be understood that the invention may take various forms and that the described details are not intended to be limitative of the invention except as set forth in the accompanying claims.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1- A Pipe smokers accessory having a structure defining a longitudinally curved pipe cleaner compartment having a pair of walls and open at both ends, the edges of the openings at the ends of one Wall being approximately aligned with a line tangential to the other wall, said compartment having its longitudinal axis lying in a horizontal plane.

2. A pipe smokers accessory having a longitudinally curved and open ended pipe cleaner compartment at its outer peripheral portion, said compartment including an arcuately curved plate dening the top of said compartment, sides integral with said accessory, and a base plate for said accessory defining the bottom of said compartment.

3. A pipe smokers accessory having a longitudinally curved and open ended tubular substantially horizontally disposed pipe cleaner compartment substantially entirely at its outer periphery and underneath the top surface of the accessory, said compartment including a horizontally disposed arcuately curved at plate de lining the top of said compartment, sides integral with said accessory, and a second horizontally disposed arcuately curved flat plate spaced below the rst and dening the bottom of said compartment, the opposite edges of each plate having their centers of curvature at the same side of the plate.

4. A pipe smokers accessory having a base portion with an exterior wall and an ash receiving portion, a tubular pipe cleaner compartment in and extending substantially longitudinally through said base portion, said compartment being dimensioned to receive a substantial number of conventional pipe cleaners and having a length such that the pipe cleaners can be located entirely inside of said compartment, the exterior wall of said base portion having spaced openings removed from said ash-receiving portion and providing access only to the ends of said compartment so that a user can insert a finger in either end and push the pipe cleaners out through the other end, and said compartment also being longitudinally curved so as to bend even one pipe cleaner whereby one or more pipe cleaners are removably but securely held in said compartment.

5. A pipe smokers accessory having a circular base portion and an ash receiving portion comprising spaced circular inner and outer walls, a longitudinally curved pipe cleaner compartment located at the outer periphery of said base portion between said inner and outer walls and extending through a portion of said base portion, said compartment being dimensioned to receive a substantial number of conventional pipe cleaners and having a length such that the pipe cleaners can be located inside of said compartment, said compartment having openings at its two ends through said outer wall so that a user can insert a finger in one end and push the pipe cleaners out through the other end, the curvature of said compartment being such as to bend even one pipe cleaner whereby one or more pipe cleaners 6 are removably but securely held in said compartf ment.

6. A pipe smokers accessory having a base portion and a central ash receiving portion, a tubular pipe cleaner compartment extending substantially horizontally and transversely through said base portion and underneath the ash receiving portion, said compartment being dimensioned to receive a substantial number of conventional pipe cleaners and having a length such that the pipe cleaners can be located inside of said compartment, said compartment having openings at its two ends to the exterior of said accessory removed from said ash receiving portion so that a user can insert a nger in one end and push the pipe cleaners out through the other end and said compartment also being longitudinally curved somewhat so as to bend the pipe cleaners therein, the pipe cleaners are removably held in said compartment.

7. A pipe smokers accessory having a base portion with an exterior Wall and a central ash receiving portion, a tubular pipe cleaner compartment located substantially entirely at the outer periphery of the base portion and extending substantially horizontally through said base portion, said compartment being dimensioned to receive a substantial number of conventional pipe cleaners and having a length such that the pipe cleaners can be located entirely inside of said compartment, the exterior wall of said base portion having spaced openings removed from said ash-receiving portion providing access only to the ends of said compartment so that a user can insert a linger in one end and push the pipe cleaners out through the other end and said compartment also being longitudinally curved somewhat so as to bend the pipe cleaners therein, whereby the pipe cleaners are removably held in said compartment.

PHILIP S. HARPER.

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